#callyourrepresentatives

Want to contact your representatives but don’t know what to say? That’s okay! Here’s what the Human Rights Campaign suggests:

“As your constituent and as one of the Human Rights Campaign's more than 3 million members and supporters, I am writing to ensure your support for the Equality Act and the crucial protections it would provide members of the LGBTQ community nationwide.

Our country cannot continue to tolerate discrimination – in employment, housing, public places, education or anywhere – on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Now more than ever, we need to pass the Equality Act and its consistent and explicit non-discrimination protections.

By explicitly including sexual orientation and gender identity in our nation’s civil rights laws, LGBTQ people will finally be afforded the exact same protections as other covered characteristics under federal law. Placing your name on the Equality Act would show you understand how important this is.

Please consider supporting the Equality Act today. For the LGBTQ community, and for the betterment of our country. Thank you for listening.”

The DREAM Act passed the House but it looks like it might die without a vote in the Senate. The DREAM Act would provide a path for citizenship for DACA recipients. Tell your Senators that you support a path to citizenship for DACA recipients and that you want the DREAM Act to come to a vote.

Dear Sen. ____

As the DREAM Act has passed the House, it is now the Senate’s responsibility to consider it. Sen. McConnell has stated that he likely will not call a vote on the Act. It is unacceptable for the Senate to continue refusing to vote on legislation passed by the House. I urge you to call for McConnell to allow the Act to come to a vote and to vote yes. These people arrived in the U.S. as children, and the U.S. is the only home many of them have ever known. They are Americans and they deserve a pathway to citizenship. Further, the DREAM Act would have significant positive societal and economic benefits, including allowing more skilled people into the workforce, raising tax revenue, and dramatically increasing the GDP. 

Sincerely,